Labret stud problems

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Saturday May 31st, 2008 @ 9:39 AM

Filed under: Lip/Cheek

Hello,

I’ve been having a series of issues it seems. I was pierced twice right next to each other on the side of my lip at 16ga, and the jewelry insert was a labret stud (to my later knowledge, 8mm post length). I realized it was too short, but even at this length it’s been bumping my teeth. Mostly on just the one closer to the middle of my lip, but the other has been bumping against it too occasionally.

However, at the same time the back of my lip is starting to “eat” the inside disc of the stud. So, there seems to be no solution, more bumping against my teeth or not have my lip “eat” it. I purchased implant grade labret studs (10mm in length), and after 2 weeks I switched them out by myself with no problem. There is still the little indent in my lip in a circle around the piercings where the discs slip neatly into, and fit into my lip some. So, even with the 10mm post length jewelry it’s still pocketing into my lip, and also hitting my teeth more. I don’t want my teeth to move, or get a receding gum over this issue.

I know CBRs are frowned upon for healing, but in this situation is this something I should switch out to to fix both problems or is it more likely I just need to get the whole thing pierced?

I’ve had them pierced for 2 weeks, the swelling is gone, and there is no signs of irritation or infection other than the irritation caused by my lip growing over the labret backing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

As with so many questions that show up here, seeing these piercings would make it much easier to make suggestions. Since that isn’t an option, please bear with me if I’m only able to advise you in more general terms.

It sounds like you made a good call getting longer jewlery in your piercings, Even though they may bump against your teeth a bit more, it’s very likely you would have ended up having to remove your piercing had the disks sunk into you lip. At the very least, this would have caused additional swelling and you would have had to put even longer jewelry in your piercings.

Unfortunately, length of the stud vs. how it hits your teeth and gums is very often one of those things you have to deal with at first with new lip piercings. Oftentimes many of those issues can be eliminated with good placement, but I can’t speak to that in your particular case.

Keep in mind that your piercings are still very new, being only two weeks old. It’s likely, that in anoher week or so, you may be able to put the 8mm studs back into your piercings (again, I can’t see, so I can’t say for sure). That would probably help with the teeth issue. Also, depending upon what sort of jewelry you have access to, once your piercings are a few months old, you should be able to change to studs that have smaller disks…which would help with the teeth issue.

Best of luck.

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